Act of solitude -- You petted me, and I followed you home -- Good to know you -- The revenge of the foot, 1970 -- Politics -- The missing person -- Will you always love me? -- Life after high school -- The goose-girl -- American, abroad -- The track -- The handclasp -- The girl who was to die -- June birthing -- The undesirable table -- Is laughter contagious? -- The brothers -- The lost child -- Christmas night, 1962 -- The passion of Rydcie Mather -- The vision -- Mark of Satan
Twenty-two stories. In The Goose Girl, a respectable suburban housewife helps her son with his sexual ambitions toward a neighbor, in The Mark of Satan, a woman evangelist working door-to-door becomes the object of a convict's desire, and in Good to Know You, couples discover how little they know each other